Monday, July 30, 2012

'Stoat brings word of Ross McKitrick's reviews of one of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature papers. While not commenting directly on the review Eli notes that in the introduction McKitrick nails just about any paper he ever wrote

On March 8 2012 I was asked by JGR to review a revised version of the
Wickham et al. paper. I submitted my review at the end of March. The
authors had made very few changes and had not addressed any of the
methodological problems, so I recommended the paper not be published. I
do not know what the journal's decision was, but it is 4 months later
and I can find no evidence on the BEST website that this or any other
BEST project paper has been accepted for publication.

One can guess how McKitrick who really has no clues about the issue got to review the paper. One guess is that Muller committed suicide because of his former friendship with Steve McIntyre, another is that one of the BEST authors, Judith Curry SuperSkeptic put in the oar.

Eli must invoke the McKitrick/McIntyre rule which requires that all of McKitrick's papers be withdrawn forthwith and the authors offer ritual apologies, burn their PhD degrees and retire to a life of flipping burgers at McDonalds serving coffee at Tim Horton's for having shattered scientific regulations established by the Climate Audit Institute.

The pity of it all is, neither he, nor McIntyre, nor Watts, would have a clue as to how incompetent the whole lot of them are. In there own friendly little patch off world, they are and always will be unimpeachable heroes.

In Vancouver in June, I had my first exposure to Tim Horton's. It seemed to be just another donut shop. I don't understand why it's either praised or scorned. Its fry oil didn't make me ill the way the oils from some donut shops do. That might be high praise or a very low bar.

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Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they occasionally heed his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.